Editor’s note: This is the 1,000th post on this blog. It’s been a long and interesting journey over the past eight years; sometimes a little tedious, sometimes tremendously exciting. My thanks go out to all my colleagues and family members who have helped me with guest reviews on discs I didn’t have the time to […]
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Five Oscar contenders this week: American Hustle, Frozen, Mandela – Walk to Freedom, Saving Mr. Banks, and The Wolf of Wall Street. (Note: I missed the release date for “Saving Mr. Banks” – thought it was later in the year. It has now been added to this week’s list.) Mainstream: American Hustle; Frozen; Kill Your […]
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Three Oscar contenders this week (The Book Thief, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Inside Llewyn Davis) plus a lot of independent fare. Mainstream: Homefront; Out of the Furnace Independent: Against the Wild; Armistice; The Book Thief; Dark House; End of the World; Enemies Closer; In Fear; In the Name of the King 3; Inside Llewyn Davis; […]
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